Category: Other sites
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Navigating the history of Norman Creek
While I continue to neglect my own website, I did recently find time to contribute to someone else’s. In collaboration with Trish FitzSimons, who recently produced a wonderful series of short films featured in the Museum of Brisbane’s Navigating Norman Creek exhibit, and with support from the Brisbane City Council’s Community History Grant, I contributed…
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Dipping into the history of Norman Creek
It’s always good to learn that you are not alone in pursuing a particular passion. It’s a welcoming sign that you might not be crazy after all, or that if you are, you are at least in good company. The history of Brisbane’s creeks (extinct or otherwise) is not a topic that has received a…
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Where a creek begins
This is just a quick plug for a side-project of mine that has mostly sat on the back-burner since this website was conceived. Before I started mapping out Western Creek in my imagination, I had started to map out Ithaca Creek (a real creek!) photographically. My plan was (and still is) to photograph Ithaca creek…
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There once was a house . . .
History can be told in so many different ways. I’ve chosen a buried suburban creek as my narrative thread. Magnus, a resident of Auchenflower, is using the renovation/restoration of his own house as a window to the history of his home and neighbourhood. His blog, A House in Auchenflower, delves into the history of the…